Managing People, Not Just Numbers
Thanksgiving Miracle
I was working in my office in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on the Monday before Thanksgiving in 1984. My Division Vice President, Jim Earwood, walked into my office.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"I'm working."
"No, you're getting out of here today and going home to West Virginia for Thanksgiving," he said.
"Jim, I was planning on leaving Wednesday evening after work. I don't have any vacation accrued yet."
"Randy, how many nights and weekends have you